Tony Paradiso
Home Town: Norwalk, CT
Distinguished Service Cross
World War I
U.S. Army
General Orders No. 46, W.D., 1919
The Distinguished Service Cross is presented to Tony Paradiso, Private, U.S. Army, for extraordinary heroism in action at Epieds, France, July 23, 1918. Fighting with rare courage at Epieds, Private Paradiso bayoneted several Germans and then discovering two machine-gunners in a tree, he crept through the wheat fields alone and killed them. Later he made several trips from Epieds to a dressing station in the woods, traversing a road under constant shell and machine-gun fire.